- -: Value Investing: Buy Cheap, Obscure and Out of Fashion
April 8, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Professor Bruce C. Greenwald discusses his executive education course in value investing and what differentiates the practice from other investment strategies. "Most investors are constitutionally oriented to buying lottery tickets," he says. "And that's what creates the value opportunities for t...
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- -: Can Wall Street Reform? - William D. Cohan
April 13, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/06/William_Cohan_House_of_Cards "Wall Street is the ultimate Darwinian Petri dish," says House of Cards author William D. Cohan. "It's capitalism at its most ruthless, most fundamental." Cohan is not optimistic that Wall Street will ever truly reform, ev...
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- -: Will Inflation Spur the next Economic Bubble? - Robert Heller
May 7, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/29/Robert_Heller_Restoring_Confidence_In_Financial_Markets Robert Heller, former CEO of Visa, discusses the threat of inflation arising from the massive amounts of stimulus money being injected into the system by the Fed. He argues that once the stimulus...
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- -: Dangers of an Unregulated Financial System - Sony Kapoor
September 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/08/CAPITAL_Sony_Kapoor_on_Changing_a_System_of_Our_Creation Sony Kapoor, managing director of Re-Define, likens the an unregulated financial system to a dangerous road with over-sized trucks carrying toxic assets driven by drunk drivers with no barriers ...
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- -: 2009 vs 1887: A Grim Look at History of Unemployment
September 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/19/Looking_for_Work_A_History_of_Unemployment The American History Guys trace the modern day concept of unemployment back to the era between the 1870s and 1880s - a period of recession they say closely mirrors the current economic climate. ----- Join t...
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- -: How to Impersonate Dow Chemical - 'Yes Man' Andy Bichlbaum
May 25, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/27/Andy_Bichlbaum_Discusses_The_Yes_Men Andy Bichlbaum, member of activist duo The Yes Men, explains how he managed to impersonate a representative from Dow Chemical on BBC World. Bichlbaum's fake admission of responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal Disaster...
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- -: Why Wall Street's Imploding, and Main Street's Improving
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 James Suroweicki discusses a "dramatic difference" between service industries where principal-agent conflicts are pervasive, and industries focused on manufactured goods. In the former, Surowiecki notes, agents are becoming ex...
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- -: President Obama on GM IPO
November 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)President Obama speaks to the media about General Motors' public stock offering and says that the company's recent success is an example of how tough choices on the economy are starting to pay off. November 18, 2010.
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- -: Investing: Is Apple More Valuable than Gold?
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/big_picture_conference_2011 Doug Kass, founder and president of Seabreeze Partners Management, argues that the value of gold is entirely "sentimental," and that he'd prefer to invest in a company that has a known value, like Apple. ----- Drawing upo...
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- -: Why Our Chimp-Like Brains Lose Money on the Stock Market
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/big_picture_conference_2011 Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation, describes one human tendency that can hinder successful stock trading: our preference for stories over data. When an analyst or CEO tells a convincing anecdote, he explains, stockho...
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